Low concentrations of ethyl alcohol stimulate the respiration of mammalian erythrocytes in vitro. Low concentrations of ethyl urethan remain without effect on, or tend slightly towards depressing the respiration of mammalian erythrocytes in vitro. It is suggested that this may be due to the oxidizable nature of alcohol, and the non-oxidizable nature of urethan, properties which come into eviden...

BACKGROUND The quantitative, measurable detection of drinking is important for the successful treatment of alcohol misuse in transplantation of patients with alcohol disorders, people living with human immunodeficiency virus that need to adhere to medication, and special occupational hazard offenders, many of whom continually deny drinking. Their initial misconduct usually leads to medical prob...

Clinicians can use several biochemical measurements to objectively assess patients' current or past alcohol use. However, none of these currently available biomarkers-including measures of various liver enzymes and blood volume--are ideal. Several more experimental markers hold promise for measuring acute alcohol consumption and relapse. These include certain alcohol byproducts, such as acetald...

Cannabis use has increased considerably during the last 15 years. One of the major problems dealing with cannabis use is driving under the influence of drugs. With the exception of ethyl alcohol, the majority of the epidemiological studies have shown that cannabis is the most frequently detected substance in people suspected of driving under the influence of drugs. Experimental studies are ther...

Use of lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia in transesterifcation reactions of ethyl hydrocinnamate with different alcohols has been examined. Among the alcohols tested, viz., n-butanol, iso-amyl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, n-octanol and 1-phenylethanol, only n-butanol yielded the transesterified product. Among the solvents tested, viz., n-heptane, n-hexane, cyclohexane, toluene, diisopropylether and n...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and effect of ultrasound-guided ethyl alcohol injection on malleolar and olecranon synovial proliferative bursitis. METHODS Twenty-four patients received ultrasound-guided 50% diluted ethyl alcohol injection at the site of synovial proliferative bursitis after aspiration of the free fluid. RESULTS Swelling and symptoms significantly decreased in 13 of t...

From the time the Leishman stain has been used for staining blood cells and parasites, it has been dissolved in acetone-free good quality methyl alcohol. Dissolving the stain in inferiorquality methyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol always gives poor results and hsematologists and parasitologists requiring precision work would always use acetone-free methyl alcohol of the best quality. After the secon...

Perfusion of absolute ethyl alcohol into the middle cerebral artery of six rhesus monkeys was performed using the Pevsner miniballoon catheter system. The animals were sacrificed by thoracotomy and intracardiac perfusion of a mixed aldehyde solution for fixation. Preliminary angiography and electron microscopy suggest absolute ethyl alcohol is a good neurovascular occlusive agent, and a possibl...